El tío Burroughs en monitos. Bernardo Fernández, Bef, Uncle Bill, México, Editorial Sexto Piso, 2014. by Raciel D. Martínez-Gómez

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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

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The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Pliny, the admiral of the Roman imperial fleet, wished as scientist to witness the event from close by and set sail in the direction of Vesuvius, but got trapped in Stabiae, a few kilometers from Pompeii, where he died together with thousands of inhabitants of nearby villages. …”
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« Vouloir de la politique » by Isabelle Rivoal

“…As in the rest of the Arab world, in Lebanon youth designates a period of life situated between childhood and manhood, the latter usually inaugurated by marriage, the arrival of children and the opening of one’s own house. However, in this society marked by confessionalism, young people distinguish themselves by their very strong politicisation. …”
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Familial Case of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disorder Detected by Oligoarray Comparative Genomic Hybridization: Genotype-to-Phenotype Diagnosis by Kimia Najafi, Roxana Kariminejad, Kaveh Hosseini, Azadeh Moshtagh, Gole Maryam Abbassi, Neda Sadatian, Masood Bazrgar, Ariana Kariminejad, Mohamad Hassan Kariminejad

“…It is caused by mutation in the PLP1 gene. Case Description. We report a 9-year-old boy referred for oligoarray comparative genomic hybridization (OA-CGH) because of intellectual delay, seizures, microcephaly, nystagmus, and spastic paraplegia. …”
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Multigenerational family coaggregation study of obsessive-compulsive disorder and cardiometabolic disorders by David Mataix-Cols, Christian Rück, Lorena Fernández de la Cruz, Kayoko Isomura, Henrik Larsson, Paul Lichtenstein, Brian M D’Onofrio, Anna Sidorchuk, Zheng Chang, James J Crowley, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Isabell Brikell, Josep Pol-Fuster, Anna Holmberg, Lina Martinsson

“…These individuals were linked to their mothers, fathers, full siblings, maternal and paternal half siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. We estimated the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and metabolic disorders (including obesity, type 2 diabetes and hyperlipidaemia), comparing the relatives of probands with and without OCD. …”
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The History of Miss Jane Pittman by Christopher Mulvey

“…Gaines uses fiction in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman to write a history of the African American from 1861 to 1961. The “Introduction” sets the novel going, but its direction has already been given in the unusual dedication to his grandmother, stepfather and aunt “who did not walk a day in her life but who taught me the importance of standing” (Gaines iv). …”
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A Chinese Family with Familial Dysalbuminemic Hyperthyroxinemia (FDH) due to R242H Mutation on Human Albumin Gene: Reevaluating the Role of FDH in Patients with Asymptomatic Hypert... by Hongbing Liu, Jianmin Ran, Chuping Chen, Guangshu Chen, Ping Zhu, Rongshao Tan, Yan Liu

“…Hyperthyroxinemia was also confirmed in the proband’s mother and one of her uncles and his son. In the proband and these three pedigrees, the high-throughput gene screening sequencing and the following Sanger sequencing disclosed a heterozygous mutation in the albumin gene, which located in its exon 7 (c.725G > A), and correspondingly leads to an arginine replacement with a histidine (R242H) in its protein. …”
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Languages of Written and Oral Communication between Russian Emperors and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, 1725–1799 by M. A. Petrova

“…By analyzing the linguistic and formal characteristics of these letters, the study provides new insights into the social and political dynamics of eighteenth-century diplomacy.…”
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